COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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Question
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A CPU which is able to carry out a thousand million instructions per seconds would have a clock speed of ____
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10GHz
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1GHz
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100MHz
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1000GHz
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A computer running at 1GHz can carry out a thousand million instructions per second.
Detailed explanation-2: -The thousand instructions per second (kIPS) unit is rarely used today, as most current microprocessors can execute at least a million instructions per second.
Detailed explanation-3: -“gigahertz” (GHz)-1, 000, 000, 000 (a billion) times per second.
Detailed explanation-4: -Million Instructions per second is a measure of the execution speed of the computer. The measure approximately provides the number of machine instructions that could be executed in a second by a computer.
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